Senior Systems Engineer — Remote/Hybrid, On‑Call & Automation

Proven Recruiting; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Proven Recruiting has partnered with a leading entertainment company to recruit a Senior Systems Engineer for its Systems Engineering team on a contract basis. The role is hybrid/remote within the United States and focuses on maintaining uptime, performance, and capacity of production servers and services.

The ideal candidate will own triage, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and will drive automation and configuration changes using Ansible while participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of UNIX/Linux administration experience.
• Scripting ability in Python or BASH.
• Significant experience with Ansible-based configuration management.
• Experience with monitoring/metrics tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or SysStat.
• Familiarity with virtualization platforms (OpenShift KubeVirt, KVM, Nutanix, or VMware).
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field a plus, not required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the uptime, performance, and capacity of production servers and services, including architectural design, performance analysis, and capacity planning
• Own ticket and alert triage, monitoring, and troubleshooting across the production environment
• Manage configuration, patching, migrations, and upgrades using tools like Ansible
• Build automation and scripting solutions to support system reliability, and participate in an on-call rotation

Skills

UNIX/Linux administration

Python

BASH

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

SysStat

OpenShift KubeVirt

KVM

Nutanix

VMware

Documentation

On-call rotation

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field (a plus, not required)

Job description

Proven Recruiting has partnered with a leading entertainment company to recruit a Senior Systems Engineer for its Systems Engineering team on a contract basis. The role is hybrid/remote within the United States and focuses on maintaining uptime, performance, and capacity of production servers and services.

The ideal candidate will own triage, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and will drive automation and configuration changes using Ansible while participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.